You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go. — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago. — Lara Flynn Boyle Copy Share Image
Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ... — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Us Irish are kind of like that: we're hard grafters. We like to prove everybody wrong. — Sheamus Copy Share Image
“St Patrick was a Roman Briton of good family dwelling probably in the Severn valley.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I think the Irish humour is unique, there are lots of aspects to it. The Irish are quick witted, and their banter… — Dylan Llewellyn Copy Share Image
My mom's half-Irish, and my dad's half-Irish. We don't know much about my mom's side, but my dad's mom came from Belfast… — Coco Rocha Copy Share Image
The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I've got my roots in Northern Ireland - my biological father's side of the family were from Belfast. — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
Next to President of the United States, Ambassador to Ireland is surely one of the best jobs an Irish American can hold. — Jean Kennedy Smith Copy Share Image
That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Because it was my first time acting in English, everyone on set was difficult to understand. It was a mix of Scottish,… — Sibel Kekilli Copy Share Image
The so-called Boer War advertised British vulnerabilities, and these were confirmed by the Irish rising of 1916 and the subsequent creation of… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past… — Bonar Law Copy Share Image
When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Inherently in us as Irish people, wherever you are in the world, when you hear an Irish accent, it's like a moth… — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
A lot of the time in Ireland we put people into boxes and that's it. — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
If your irish or asian of course you would agree with size don't matter. — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish. — Oliver St. John Copy Share Image
“Romantic Ireland's dead and gone It's with O' Leary in the grave (September 1913)” — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
